Women in the Mediterranean: faces and migration routes
A member of the SOS Méditerranée association takes part in a "die-in" on the Old Port of Marseille, on August 29, 2020, to demand the release of the "Ocean Viking" from the Italian authorities who had seized it.
AFP - CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU
Text by: Juliette Gheerbrant Follow
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Giving birth in the open sea in an overloaded canoe in the central Mediterranean is the incredible story of Constance, which made the headlines in July 2017. But in general, migrant women are much less visible in the news of migration, although they have always traveled, alone or with relatives.
On March 8, the NGO SOS Méditerranée chose to pay tribute to them in a conference organized in partnership with RFI.
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It is still connected to his mother by the umbilical cord that Christ was taken in charge by the rescuers of SOS Méditerranée.
No less than six children were born aboard the NGO's first ship between 2016 and 2019. But women pay a higher price than men on the migratory route and their mortality is higher according to studies carried out by them. researchers interested in the identification of victims.
Women constitute between 1 / 5th and 1 / 6th of the migrants crossing the Mediterranean.
Since the start of the NGO's operations, exactly five years ago, 5,028 women have been rescued by SOS Méditerranée, out of a total of 32,500 people.
In Libya,
violence against migrants
is very well documented, women are subjected to forced labor and, systematically or almost now, to sexual violence.
Once in Europe, it is more difficult for them than for men to find their autonomy and to come out of marginalization.
Witnessing the feminine journeys of migration, from the variety of causes of departure to the sorority on the roads, through life in Libya, the support by humanitarian ships before Europe is the objective of the conference organized by SOS Méditerranée in partnership with RFI, which you can follow here and on our social networks.
With Camille Schmoll, researcher, author of the book
Les damnées de la mer, femmes et frontières en Méditerranée
;
Nejma Brahim, journalist at Médiapart, and Laurence Bondard of SOS Méditerranée.
Conference moderated by Juliette Gheerbrant.
Every day at 7 a.m. on RFI find Guilhem Delteil, from the international service, reporting on board the
Ocean Viking
for his new mission in the central Mediterranean.
A daily logbook to also read on our site
.
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